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Behind Tojo's changes was an old & bitter tug of war between the Army and Big Business for the control of heavy industry. Japan's great holding families, Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, did not oppose war; they opposed Army dominance of the economy. Under the Army's guidance, the new Ministry will now divert more yen, men and materials into the manufacture of weapons, at the expense of the little man's wardrobe and dinner bowl. Especial care, Tojo has indicated, will be lavished upon the aircraft industry...
...Congress went home in the heat-nerves and bodies strained and weary, judgments irritable and unsure. In months of grueling tug of war with the Executive, the Congress had tried to regain some of its old independence, and had partially succeeded...
...Bath and Wells is one of Britain's oldest sees (founded 909), has one of the country's most perfect cathedrals. The Bishop's Palace is famous for its bastioned wall and a moat where the swans tug at the drawbridge rope as a hint that they want...
Cropper for Frazer. The jeep helped tug Willys into the profit column in '41 for the first time in four years. With 70% of its dollar volume in jeeps in '42, Willys totted up $1,265,399 in net profits, boosted its net to $1,347,949 for the fiscal six months ending last March...
...arrived in the U.S., where he was introduced with the New York Philharmonic under Sir Thomas Beecham. So fast and furious was Horowitz' performance of the Tchaikovsky Concerto that peppery Sir Thomas refused to keep up with it. For whole measures, Tchaikovsky's music sounded like a tug...